Word: harper
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...Weight, in pounds, of the September issues of Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar and InStyle magazines, combined...
...early in 1968 when I met WILLIE MORRIS in New York. Morris was the editor of Harper's and had been a Rhodes scholar. I wrote to him shortly after I got my Rhodes, and to my surprise, he agreed to see me. He was wonderfully wry and funny--the classic Southerner. He wrote a great book about his dog. He wrote a fascinating book about the role of football in the South and the racial barriers, The Courting of Marcus Dupree. You know, most Southerners thought they'd be looked down upon if they went up to the Northeast...
...list's top five includes Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis...
...already written Light in August and The Sound and the Fury, but in 1948, when WILLIAM FAULKNER submitted a short story to the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, steely editors at both publications rejected it. This week the Virginia Quarterly Review, a journal apparently with less forbidding standards, will finally unveil "Lucas Beauchamp." The Review, published by the University of Virginia, where Faulkner was a writer-in-residence, inherited the story from the Rev. Patrick Samway, a former literary editor of a Jesuit magazine. Samway got a copy of the manuscript in 1975 but rediscovered it only earlier this year...
Like Harvard, most other universities do not grant tenure easily. But professors Cheah, Masten, and Brian Harper, who left the Harvard English department in 1995, says the other schools offer the prospect of tenure, sometimes at the associate professor level...